The foregoing presents a Stoic view on modality and freedom as if there were just one and as if it constitutes a response to our modern issue of free will and determinism.
A lot of confusion existed on this point, especially since calling genes the "fundamental unit of selection", based on their status as replicators, made it seem as if this constituted an argument against group selection.
Republicans are trying to define the press and public's view of what counts as a compromise, by reiterating their existing positions as if they constituted concessions.
As if that constitutes justification.
Too much is made in Britain of the "white working class" as if it constitutes a designated group, separate from the rest of us, not sharing our outlook or values.
The lender will be evaluating these rental properties as if they constituted a small business, Mr. Manning said, which means it will want to make sure that the rents cover the mortgage and other expenses.
But not to worry: the cognitive dissonance was easily balanced when, in the same speech, he said "Obama" when he meant (one hopes) "Osama," and, asked about waterboarding, said that he was "a strong believer," as if it constituted an ideology or a new kind of yoga.
MoMA officials let it be known that the folk museum's faceted bronze-alloy facade didn't fit in with the Modern's glass aesthetic and that its floors didn't line up with MoMA's, as if that constituted a design obstacle too formidable to overcome.
She lifted herself from the couch with that new, slightly laboured motion he had noticed of late, an exaggerated series of pushes and lifts whereby she seemed to be anticipating a larger and more pregnant future, cradling her tummy to support it, although in this case the gesture seemed not only protective but also defensive, as if he constituted a possible threat to the foetus.
The primary error of Christianity, according to Feuerbach, was that it took human predicates and projected them into another world as if they constituted an independent being.
